The SWA is the String working area, this location has a maximum of 255-bytes for the storage of one string Its location is &600 (First Character), with each subsequent byte representing the subsequent character, until the end of the String (or to the maximum of &6FF) The length of the SWA (pointer to the last character) is stored in zero page location &36 This means that a terminator byte is not needed to signify the end of the string, as this length byte provides the required information